Top 70 Mike Myers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.”

— Mike Myers

2. “I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.”

— Mike Myers

3. “The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.”

— Mike Myers

4. “In fact, NASA doesn’t use the F-word; instead, they call failure “early attempts at success.”

— Mike Myers

5. “Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.”

— Mike Myers

6. “Enlightenment is lightening up.”

— Mike Myers

7. “My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.”

— Mike Myers

8. “Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we’re a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto’s a city that doesn’t even have a dish named after it.”

— Mike Myers

9. “It’s hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, “Who do you think you are, eh?””

— Mike Myers

10. “Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.”

— Mike Myers

11. “Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it’s boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It’s a very civilized place to grow up. I’m very proud of it.”

— Mike Myers

12. “I’m a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it’s something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.”

— Mike Myers

13. “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.”

— Mike Myers

14. “I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.”

— Mike Myers

15. “I’m bigger than you! I’m higher on the food chain – get in my belly!”

— Mike Myers

16. “Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!”

— Mike Myers

17. “Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you’re 12, but every day.”

— Mike Myers

18. “Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I’ve ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.”

— Mike Myers

19. “This crazy thing called love...”

— Mike Myers

20. “Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.”

— Mike Myers

21. “Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.”

— Mike Myers

22. “I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.”

— Mike Myers

23. “My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn’t like people who had no sense of humour.”

— Mike Myers

24. “I’m basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I’m five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?”

— Mike Myers

25. “My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.”

— Mike Myers

26. “Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.”

— Mike Myers

27. “Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour – we’re more like celery as a flavour.”

— Mike Myers

28. “When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.”

— Mike Myers

29. “I do miss Saturday Night Live, that’s for sure. There’s nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I’d only been away for a week.”

— Mike Myers

30. “I’ve been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you’d better like Shrek if you’re going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.”

— Mike Myers

31. “I’ve been frozen for 30 years. I’ve got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.”

— Mike Myers

32. “With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.”

— Mike Myers

33. “If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.”

— Mike Myers

34. “Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil – the adventures of being an evil single parent – needed to be explored.”

— Mike Myers

35. “Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.”

— Mike Myers

36. “I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I’m very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.”

— Mike Myers

37. “Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.”

— Mike Myers

38. “And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you’re beautiful, so don’t let other people tell you that you’re not just because you don’t look like the people in magazines. Or because you’re not that weird ideal body image that’s out there right now.”

— Mike Myers

39. “You can’t think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don’t, and you throw it to the universe.”

— Mike Myers

40. “I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It’s a great dynamic.”

— Mike Myers

41. “My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He’d often come out with this stuff.”

— Mike Myers

42. “And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they’re awesome, the kind of thing that if you’re in for ten minutes, you’re in for two hours.”

— Mike Myers

43. “I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.”

— Mike Myers

44. “I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.”

— Mike Myers

45. “Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.”

— Mike Myers

46. “Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.”

— Mike Myers

47. “Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.”

— Mike Myers

48. “I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I’m not going to deny myself that. I think I’d be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.”

— Mike Myers

49. “I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.”

— Mike Myers

50. “Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they’re made they affect the appetite.”

— Mike Myers